On 2010-10-23 18:59, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > REQ_HARDBARRIER is dead now, so remove the leftovers. What's left > at this point is: > > - various checks inside the block layer. > - sanity checks in bio based drivers. > - now unused bio_empty_barrier helper. > - Xen blockfront use of BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER - it's dead for a while, > but Xen really needs to sort out it's barrier situaton. > - setting of ordered tags in uas - dead code copied from old scsi > drivers. > - scsi different retry for barriers - it's dead and should have been > removed when flushes were converted to FS requests. > - blktrace handling of barriers - removed. Someone who knows blktrace > better should add support for REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA, though. Thanks Christoph, applied for 2.6.37 (but with a few days of brewing). -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
